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Title: Odd mouse question
Post by: menace on January 23, 2003, 09:41:42 am

As I have been told and have discovered, the faster you move the mouse (spinner) the further it goes do to some programmer's quirky sense of world order.  My question, is there a way to equalize (for lack of a better word) the mouse so that it travels the same distance regardless of the spin rate?  Thanks!

Title: Re:Odd mouse question
Post by: Nyrine on January 23, 2003, 10:13:35 am

Under Windows 2000 (and others I guess)

Control Panel -> Mouse -> Motion

Set Acceleration to None.

Title: Re:Odd mouse question
Post by: eightbit on January 23, 2003, 01:16:48 pm

Quote from: menace on January 23, 2003, 09:41:42 am

As I have been told and have discovered, the faster you move the mouse (spinner) the further it goes do to some programmer's quirky sense of world order.  My question, is there a way to equalize (for lack of a better word) the mouse so that it travels the same distance regardless of the spin rate?  Thanks!

You can also adjust the speed and sensitivity from within mame with the in game menu (mapped to tab by default).

Title: Re:Odd mouse question
Post by: menace on January 24, 2003, 11:27:42 am

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You can also adjust the speed and sensitivity from within mame with the in game menu (mapped to tab by default).

I have been fiddling with these for some time but haven't discovered how to reduce the speed vs. distance thing common in ps/2 mice--I am using advmame in a 98SE DOS OS--Any suggestions as to what settings minimize these effects? Thx

Title: Re:Odd mouse question
Post by: ErikRuud on January 24, 2003, 11:48:00 am

You have to adjust your mouse settings in windows.  For most versions of Windows,  I beleive it is under "Settings", "Control Panel", "Mouse".  The tabs on the mouse setting will depend on which mouse you have.  

Title: Re:Odd mouse question
Post by: rampy on January 24, 2003, 12:03:19 pm

you'd shut off mouse accelration in your DOS mouse driver...

The effect your describing comes from mouse accelleration done on a driver level...

find where your DOS mouse driver is (assuming you are  in "real" dos not dos window in windows98se)  probably called mouse.com or the like... and do a  
mouse.com ?
or mouse.com /?
or mouse.com -?
or mouse.com help
  command (replace mouse.com with the name of your actual mouse driver loaded in your autoexec.bat) and hopefully it will pull up a list of commands and switches you can set to adjust sensitivity and hopefully shut off acceleration.  

If you find a setting you like you'll want to add it to your autoexec.bat so that it boots up that way every time.

Some people have futzed with the spokes on the actual encoder wheel to get different types of response for certain games, but i don't believe that to be symptomatic of the issue you described...
good luck!

rmapy